Hungarian journalist filmed kicking and tripping refugees

[frkls]

toolbag

[elleblue]

Omfg. Fuck her.

[pixy0stix]

I'd like to trip and kick her.

[summer]

She kicked that child in the legs? 

[orangello]

Watch the video at the link where she trips a man carrying a very small child. She is a disgusting human being.

[bugandbibs]

She can straight up go to Hell.

[IIOY]

The Internet is already working on this.

[Velar Fricative]

OMG WTF is wrong with this bitch???

[elleblue]

I know we've discussed internet vigilantism on several occasions and I've said (in general) that it often goes too far, but I can't say I'll be sad when she can no longer get work as a journalist.

[Alyssa]

What a piece of shit.

[meshaliuknits]

I hope she's got a back up name and career.

[marriedfilingjoint]

I'm going to lose my feminist card for this but she's a fucking cunt.

[ttt]

Jesus she just kicked a little girl on camera?

My solace is that the Internet gon' get her.

[josieposy]

Wow.

[cville]

Is this some sort of politically motivated sabotage? Looking for better footage? Being a class A bitch with no fucking soul? What on earth could be the motivation here, you Texas tuxedo-wearing waste of life?

[Cicero]

Wait, am I reading correctly that the camera man is the one who was fired? What?

[Aquatica]

I just lost my faith in humanity again...

[twohearted]

Sept 8, 2015 15:41:42 GMT -5 Cicero said:

Wait, am I reading correctly that the camera man is the one who was fired? What?

I think she is the cameraman.

[bugandbibs]

Sept 8, 2015 15:41:42 GMT -5 Cicero said:

Wait, am I reading correctly that the camera man is the one who was fired? What?

The woman is a video journalist. She was fired. My guess is she was trying to get dramatic footage of people falling while trying to flee. She is a horrible human being.

[iammalcolmx]

She has apologized , she says she panicked  ^o)

  www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/11/439422524/camerawoman-who-tripped-migrant-in-hungary-apologizes

Petra Laszlo, the videographer who was caught on camera sticking her leg out to trip a migrant as he ran from police while clutching a child to his chest says she is sorry – and that she's not "heartless." Laszlo says she panicked when she saw people running toward her in a field close to Hungary's border with Serbia.

The camerawoman was fired by Hungary's N1TV network Wednesday, as the editor in chief of the network said Laszlo had "behaved unacceptably" in the collection area, where police repeatedly tried to round up refugees and other migrants — and where Laszlo and many other videographers had fanned out across a field to document the events.

Laszlo became the target of thousands of negative online comments Wednesday, when a Facebook "wall of shame" was created to vent public anger over her actions. While the key footage showed her tripping a man, other images showed Laszlo seeming to kick at a young woman as she tried to run across a field.

From Budapest, Lauren Frayer reports for our Newscast unit:



"In her apology letter, Petra Laszlo says 'something snapped' in her, because she was scared of migrants running from police. 'I'm not a heartless, racist, children-kicking camerawoman,' she says.

"She's a mother herself — now unemployed, and under police investigation. She's become a symbol of xenophobia in Hungary."

As Lauren reported Wednesday, N1TV is "associated with Hungary's far-right anti-immigrant party," the Jobbik party.

In addition to her other troubles, the police are looking into Laszlo's actions this week to see if they warrant criminal charges.

[ttt]

Sept 11, 2015 7:20:07 GMT -5 iammalcolmx said:

She has apologized , she says she panicked 

  www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/11/439422524/camerawoman-who-tripped-migrant-in-hungary-apologizes

Petra Laszlo, the videographer who was caught on camera sticking her leg out to trip a migrant as he ran from police while clutching a child to his chest says she is sorry – and that she's not "heartless." Laszlo says she panicked when she saw people running toward her in a field close to Hungary's border with Serbia.

The camerawoman was fired by Hungary's N1TV network Wednesday, as the editor in chief of the network said Laszlo had "behaved unacceptably" in the collection area, where police repeatedly tried to round up refugees and other migrants — and where Laszlo and many other videographers had fanned out across a field to document the events.

Laszlo became the target of thousands of negative online comments Wednesday, when a Facebook "wall of shame" was created to vent public anger over her actions. While the key footage showed her tripping a man, other images showed Laszlo seeming to kick at a young woman as she tried to run across a field.

From Budapest, Lauren Frayer reports for our Newscast unit:



"In her apology letter, Petra Laszlo says 'something snapped' in her, because she was scared of migrants running from police. 'I'm not a heartless, racist, children-kicking camerawoman,' she says.

"She's a mother herself — now unemployed, and under police investigation. She's become a symbol of xenophobia in Hungary."

As Lauren reported Wednesday, N1TV is "associated with Hungary's far-right anti-immigrant party," the Jobbik party.

In addition to her other troubles, the police are looking into Laszlo's actions this week to see if they warrant criminal charges.

Uh huh.....

[josieposy]

What? You don't trip and kick people when you panic?

[ttt]

How do you say "Bye Felicia" in Hungarian?

[partiallysunny]

Why?

[marriedfilingjoint]

Laszlo became the target of thousands of negative online comments Wednesday, when a Facebook "wall of shame" was created to vent public anger over her actions. While the key footage showed her tripping a man, other images showed Laszlo seeming to kick at a young woman CHILD as she tried to run across a field.

Here, NPR, FTFY.

[pixy0stix]

Liar liar pants on fire.

[rugbywife]

Bullshit on panicking. She was trying to get 'better' footage. Reminds me of Nightcrawler'. Shudder.

[WOT?*]

Sept 11, 2015 8:21:30 GMT -5 ttt said:

How do you say "Bye Felicia" in Hungarian?

According to both Google Translate and Babylon it's:

"Bye Felicia"

^{but since "bye" is Viszlát! I'm going with the corrected "Viszlát Felicia!"}

[Velar Fricative]

She sure looked pretty calm just before she tripped those people.